1565

Years: 1562 1563 1564 - 1565 - 1566 1567 1568
Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded
April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.
September 8 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).

Miguel L�pez de Legaspi founds San Miguel, the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines
Russia, beginning of the Opritchtina

April 2 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia and managed to begin the Dutch spice trade (died 1599)
August 16 - Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1637)
Riza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (died 1635)
Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)
Edward Blount, printer of Shakespeare
Ferdinando Gorges, early English colonial entrepreneur (died 1647)
Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)
John Davies of Hereford, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1618)
George Kirbye, English composer of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras (died 1634)
Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)
Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died 1647)
Pedro Fern�ndez de Quir�s, Portuguese seaman and explorer (died 1614)
John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews (died 1639)
Francis Tanfield, Proprietary Governor of the South Falkland colony
Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died 1635)
Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died 1608)
Robert Wintour, one of the leading members of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot (died 1606)